Loans

Households increasingly relying on unsecured debt

28% of Brits have sought to borrow an amount equal to at least half...

P2P platform joins UK Finance

ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance,...

Fluent Money Group continues recruitment drive

Second charge mortgage broker Fluent Money Group, which recently acquired specialist distributor Brytannic Extra...

Phoebus Software appoints CTO

Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL) has appointed Neil Dyke as its new chief technical officer...

Creditor Toolkit hailed as ‘breakthrough’

Computershare has backed the launch of the Money Advice Service’s (MAS’s) new Creditor Toolkit. MAS...

Sense Network adopts Mortgage Brain software

Sense Network has become the latest firm to select Mortgage Brain as its preferred...

Assetz Capital hires regional relationship director for Scotland

Assetz Capital has announced the appointment of Ian Craig as a regional relationship director...

Debt consolidation hotspot in borrowing revealed

53% of all loan requests in the Lytham St Annes postal area are aimed...

Optimum Credit securitisation ‘significant for seconds’

Fluent Money has hailed Optimum Credit's recent securitisation as demonstrating the "growing importance and status" of...

Second charge new business up by a quarter

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed its members' new business figures for the second...

Equiniti acquires loan management tech firm

Equiniti Group has announced the acquisition of the Nostrum Group. Nostrum is a provider of...

PRA reviewing consumer credit lending following growing concerns

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has undertaken a review of consumer credit lending, examining...

FCA consults over consumer credit staff incentives

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published proposals on how consumer credit firms...

Second charge provider in £256m securitisation

Optimum Credit has raised £256m via a securitisation transaction which it hopes will further...
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COMMENT

networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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